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Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Particles N e w s l e t t e r August 2022 Issue 107 |
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Call for Nominations - 2022 Elsevier/JQSRT Awards Peter C. Waterman Award This prestigious Elsevier/JQSRT young-
scientist award is named after Peter C. Waterman (1928 - 2012) whose
ground-breaking research has had a dramatic and long-lasting impact and to a
large degree has guided the progress in the disciplines of electromagnetic,
acoustic, and elastic wave scattering by obstacles. The 2022 Waterman Award will be competed
among outstanding early-career scientists who work on the theory and
applications of Electromagnetic Scattering. The award will be presented at
the 20th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference (ELS-XX). The
conference venue and time will be announced later. The award will consist of
a certificate and monetary prize of 750 USD. For more details see https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-quantitative-spectroscopy-and-radiative-transfer/about/awards-winners
Richard M. Goody Award This prestigious Elsevier/JQSRT
young-scientist award is named after Richard M. Goody whose pioneering
research has had a profound and long- lasting impact on the disciplines of
atmospheric radiation, remote sensing, and climate change. The 2022 Goody Award will be competed among
outstanding early-career scientists who work in the fields of Atmospheric
Radiation and Remote Sensing. The award will be presented at the 20th
Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference (ELS-XX). The conference
venue and time will be announced later. The award will consist of a
certificate and monetary prize of 750 USD. For more details see https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-quantitative-spectroscopy-and-radiative-transfer/about/awards-winners Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd
(1945-2022) With great sadness we are informing the
light-scattering community that Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd
passed away on August 1, 2022. Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd
(ACLR, as she liked to call herself) combined in her work ground-based and
space-based observations as well as laboratory and numerical simulations to
better understand the physical properties of cometary and interplanetary
dust. She was appointed as a professor of astronomy and space physics at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) in 1985 and
became professor emeritus in 2013, combining teaching activities with the
research at the Service d'Aeronomie and, since
2009, LATMOS institute. In 1977, she applied to the ESA astronaut selection
campaign and was the only woman selected amongst the final participants. She started her research with studies of
the interplanetary medium and derived the first global map in intensity and
polarization of the zodiacal light, providing constraints on the local
physical properties of the interplanetary dust particles. ACLR participated in the international
campaign of Halley comet both with observations from the ground and as the PI
of the OPE experiment on-board the European Giotto spacecraft, which observed
the linear polarization in the inner coma of the comet. Results showed the
presence of low-density solid particles and light scattering mostly by large
particles. She continued her work on the study of
light scattering by irregular particles by developing facilities in the
laboratory and in microgravity (such as PROGRA2, CODAG and ICAPS-LSU) to
simultaneously study the intensity and polarization of aggregated particles.
A reduced version of the ICAPS experiment will soon fly on-board a TEXUS
rocket. ACLR participated in the Rosetta mission,
focusing on determining the physical properties of the cometary nucleus and
dust particles. She actively participated in the development of the EnVisS camera, a multiwavelength polarimetric imager of
the ESA Comet Interceptor spacecraft due to be launched in 2029. She supervised seven PhD students. She was
particularly enthusiastic about supporting the recognition and advancement of
her female colleagues. Anny-Chantal published five outreach books on
astronomy and gave popular TV lectures. She was the President of the French
Committee for the organization of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. Asteroid 6170 is named Levasseur in her
honor. In recognition of her scientific work, she was appointed Officier de la Legion d`honneur
in 2013 and was awarded the following prizes: prix Thorlet
de l`Academie des sciences (1976), prix Glaxo de vulgarisation scientifique
(1982), prix des Dames de la Societe Astronomique de France (1986). Edith Hadamcik Jeremiee Lasue Jean-Baptiste Renard ===================================================================================================================================== The
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